What does the Human Rights Act Protect
- Created by: Juliet Cecilia Isherwood
- Created on: 21-03-13 15:59
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- What does the Human Rights Act Protect
- Right to life-investigate suspicious deaths and deaths in custody
- Right to Freedom and Liberty-imprisoned only if convicted of a crime
- Right to fair trial and no punishment without law-innocent until proven guilty, have the right to hear the evidence against you in a court of law
- Privacy-protects against any unnecessary intrusion or surveillance
- Freedom of thought, religion and belief
- Free Speech and peaceful protest
- Protection of property-protect against state interference with possessions
- Right to an education-no child can be denied and education
- Right to free elections-fair
- Protection against torture or any form of inhumane treatment
- Protection against slavery or forced labour
- Right to marry and raise a family
- Protection against discrimination; everyone's rights are equal
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